Hyderabad: The farmers across telangana are suffering because of a scarcity of urea within the gift Kharif season, the evidence of which, will be seen in the long queues in front of the primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (%) in the kingdom.
The dearth is extra seen in the undivided khammam district, where 50 percentage of the farmers have long past for seed broadcasting approach for sowing paddy in advance than other regions, expecting early monsoons this year.
Though the farmers’ businesses are pointing their palms on the Centre, for reducing the supply of fertilisers this Kharif season, there are extra dimensions to the hassle.
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Shortage of two lakh tonne urea in Kharif
In step with Ramesh Madineni, kingdom vice-president of All india Kisan Sabha (AIKS), telangana needs eight.5 lakh tonne urea for Kharif season, but this year most effective 6.five lakh tonne has been allotted, the supply of that's being not on time.
In line with him, urea is provided 50 percentage to percent thru Markfed, and 50 percentage to personal sellers within the nation. The subsidy of round Rs 1,500 consistent with forty five kg bag is being given by the Centre to farmers buying it from %, which would placed the price in keeping with bag at Rs 265. Alternatively, there's no subsidy for urea being offered via the personal dealers.
The condition imposed on personal fertiliser dealers
He tells Siasat.com that this 12 months, the private sellers are being given other sluggish-transferring fertilisers to sell, as a condition for offering them urea by means of fertiliser groups.
This indicates, for instance, for presenting a lorry-load of urea, they may be being requested to promote other fertilisers which don’t have demand. In khammam, the personal dealers had resolved now not to sell urea if such situation became imposed on them. However, the district agricultural officer had held talks with the sellers and convinced them to preserve the sale going.
The lengthy queues at p.c.
When it comes to supply in %, he says that this 12 months there is a cap of handiest 2 luggage of urea being offered in keeping with passbook to farmers. As 1 bag of urea is consumed in step with acre, it affects the medium and massive farmers proudly owning 5 or 10 acres.
“There are over 1,000 farmers status in lengthy queues in front of percent, while there are only 500 baggage to be had. Farmers are losing a whole day of their labour while ready in the queues so long as half a kilometre. The hassle is being exacerbated as even those who don’t want urea are standing in queues ,” he claimed.
“Ten years ago, one p.c. Used to serve a village, but currently every p.c. Is dealing with as many as 10 villages, that's causing the rush specifically whilst there may be a shortage of urea,” he observes.
Bonthu Rambabu, country joint secretary of telangana Rythu Sangham, tells Siasat.com that in view that it is July 26, that's already past due for delivering urea, the farmers would have to watch for the subsequent buy of urea till august 26.
Centre wants farmers to transition closer to nano urea
The farmers’ firms are suspecting that the lack of urea from the Centre is being pushed by way of it’s plan to promote the sale or nano urea within the open marketplace, as an alternative to the everyday urea.
“BJP mp Konda Vishweshwar reddy too had lately said that reducing paddy manufacturing and use of urea is the Centre’s policy. His announcement is giving credence to our suspicion,” he mentioned.
Tenant farmers and tribals struggling the most
The ones dealing with the most difficult situation are tribals and tenant farmers who form a massive majority in the erstwhile khammam district.
Rambabu says that aadhar card, patta passbook xerox copies and biometric authorisation of the farmers being asked at p.c. Has turn out to be a main hurdle for those marginalised farmers in securing the subsidised urea.
“as an instance, there are many nris and employees who are not cultivating their lands. While the tenant farmers who leased their lands visit p.c. For urea, a one-time password will be sent to the pattadar who may not get hold of it due to being abroad, or even if they do, they'll now not be to be had,” he notes.
“most of the tribals in the business enterprise regions don’t have passbooks. In order that they received’t be capable of avail the subsidised urea, and would have to rely upon personal dealers for fertilisers, incurring excessive input prices,” he provides.
The dearth or urea is more in Chintakani, Wyra, Kalluru, Yellandu, Tekulapalli and Sattupalli mandals inside the erstwhile khammam district.
Nano versus normal urea
On why the farmers in the khammam place who were progressively moving ahead with seed broadcasting technique of paddy sowing were no longer showing a whole lot hobby in transitioning closer to nano urea, Rambabu says that though the charge on nano urea costing Rs 250 in keeping with 0.five litre bottle may additionally seem as equivalent to a subsidised bag of urea costing Rs 265- there's a seize.
He observes that at the same time as one man or woman is needed to use urea in an acre of land, it'd want three people to do the equal task while the usage of nano urea, as it would require mixing the nano urea in water, which suggests water needs to be carried via a person, blended, and sprayed the usage of a pump- that's labour intensive.
“most of the farmers on this location are used to brands like nagarjuna urea and Godavari DAP. They may be but to see any advantage from nano urea,” he opines.
Ramesh factors out that particularly at some point of the rains, normal urea is extra effective, because it uniformly spreads and enters the roots of the crop assisting their growth, while the nano urea implemented to the plant gets washed away if it rains.
Farmers’ businesses in the erstwhile khammam and across the nation were representing to their respective district agricultural officers to speed-up deliver of urea for the beyond month, and additionally to loosen up the mandatory requirement for biometric, aadhar and passbook of farmers to buy urea at %.
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